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were inferior, though apparently free from adulteration. One 

 sample sent by a local dealer was adulterated, accidentally or other 

 wise, with a noticeable quantity of ground corn cobs. Several shippers 

 recognizing their inability to maintain former guarantees have adopted 

 new figures and others have been cautioned in the matter. 



Com and oat feed : — These feeds consisted 



Corn and Oat largely of corn meal or hominy and oat feed 



Feeds. with occasionally some wheat feed or barley, and in 



Pages 18-19. one case buckwheat. They averaged in protein 9.30 



per cent and in fat 4.10 per cent, and practically 

 all met their guarantees. These mixtures are intended mostly 

 for horses and are prepared primarily to make use of the 

 residue from the oat meal mills. ' The tendency has been in many 

 cases to utilize a low grade of corn. If free from mould and of good 

 appearance, they are probably worth from 10 to 20 per cent less than 

 corn meal. The prices asked for many of these feeds were frequently 

 in excess of their value. 



Most of these mixtures are composed chiefly of oat 

 Fortified Oat feed, or corn and oat feed, fortified with wheat mid- 

 Feeds, dlings or red dog. A small amount of linseed meal 

 Pages 19-20. was noted in two samples. At the prices asked, 



they cannot be regarded as very expensive for horse 

 feeduig, although the writer would prefer a mixture of one-half corn, 

 one-fourth oats and one-fourth bran. Combinations of cottonseed 

 meal flour middlings and bran, distillers' grains and middlings, or 

 gluten feed and bran, are held to be decidedly more economical and 

 satisfactory for dairy animals than fortified oat feeds. 



The several samples of oat feed taken were of 



Miscellaneous poorer quality than usual, containing a very high 



Starchy Feeds, percentage of hulls. Shredded wheat waste, as its 



Pages 20-21. name implies, is the residue from the manufacture 



of shredded wheat biscuit. The price asked, $1.75 

 a hundred, was excessive, excepting when purchased as a food for 

 chickens. For ordinary feeding purposes, it could hardly be consid- 

 ered more valuable than corn meal. 



Corn bran, has probably about two-thirds of the feeding value of 

 corn meal. 



Cor?i middlings is a valuable carbohydrate. It contained rather 

 more protein than corn meal and was particularly rich in fat. Its 



